12 Quotes by Mandy Len Catron

Mark says that when I am frustrated his I love you means it's okay for me to be frustrated - a reminder that my feelings are situational and temporary. "And because I love you even when you are annoyed and I want you to know," he adds.

I have already learned that everyone likes an amicable breakup. It's easier when you are not required to empathize with someone else's grief.

If the institution of marriage really is failing, maybe it’s because it is no longer the only – or even the best – model for how to make a happy life.

My job was not to choose a good person to love, but rather to be good to the person I’d chosen.

Love stories have endings, but love itself is ongoing and continually warped and renewed by the people who do the loving.

Extraordinary love was not defined by the intensity with which you wanted someone, but by generosity and kindness and a deep sense of friendship.

Mark says that when I am frustrated his I love you means it’s okay for me to be frustrated – a reminder that my feelings are situational and temporary. “And because I love you even when you are annoyed and I want you to know,” he adds.

It reminds us that love isn’t something that happens to us – it’s something we’re making together.

In a community that values contentment over pickiness, you must also be satisfied with your spouse. Calling something not good enough is a kind of betrayal. And you are not simply betraying the person to whom you made that lifetime commitment; you are also, in a way, betraying your community and family. If life is hard for everyone, who are you to have everything you need and still say, ‘This won’t do anymore’?